[18 July 1918]

To Chicherin

The question posed by you (in writing today), in my opinion, is resolved simply and unconditionally: yes (a political agreement à la Ioffe must be concluded, without surrendering Estonia, Livonia and Georgia, but registering their occupation by Germany).

Have you sent an encoded dispatch to Ioffe concerning Murmansk?

**FOOTNOTE 1:** The memorandum is connected with questions raised by new demands and certain complications in relations with the German government and the occupation of Murmansk by Entente forces. On 18 July 1918 V. I. Lenin heard a report by G. V. Chicherin on the first question.